What We Do
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” – Leonardo Da Vinci

Our philosophy

Keep it Simple

We believe in less is more, the concept that simplicity leads to good design and development, thereby adding complexity and maintainability to applications.

Agile

We apply Agile methodologies, where requirements and solutions evolve interatively through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams, making sure you get exactly what you require.

Get it right the first time

We understand your needs and develop solutions properly from the beginning, thus providing a foundation on which you can grow your application in a modular and maintainable fashion.

Core Skill sets

Content Management Systems

Skipjack specialise in developing advanced, custom-built Content Management Systems (CMS) using the latest PHP frameworks, allowing administrators to securely manage their website content with ease. Our CMS tools are intuitive and focus on usability, making them a pleasure to use. Skipjack have the skills and expertise to understand a client's requirements in a CMS. We ask the right questions, to ensure we understand your needs, which allows us to build a CMS that exactly fits your business and online presence.

Laravel

Our PHP framework of choice is Laravel, which enforces industry standard best practices and follows Model View Controller (MVC) design, ensuring clarity between business logic and presentation. Laravel ships with built-in functionality like authentication, routing, caching, database migrations, and unit testing, which faciliate fast and secure development. Laravel is modular and assumes modern PHP best practice principles, which allows us to build modular, maintainable, responsive and usable web applications.

DevOps

We incorporate our DevOps engineering expertise into all of our work, putting IT solutions & infrastructure in place which increases our client's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity and scale to their customers. This speed enables our clients to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market.

API Development & Integration

We design and develop custom-built RESTful APIs for web and mobile applications. Skipjack also have extensive experience in integrating with existing, external APIs like Mailchimp, Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps, and various payment gateways. Our APIs are robust, maintainable and scalable. Our DevOps skills have allowed us to deploy APIs into Amazon Web Services infrastructure that makes use of load balancers and auto-scaling groups, allowing the APIs to serve millions of customers.

Responsiveness & Usability

Development it taken a further by providing Responsive Web Application solutions, developing web applications that provide optimal usability and viewing experience across a wide range of devices, from desktop computers, to tablets and smart phones. We focus on delivering great user experiences and web applications that are simple to use.

Architecture & Code Base reviews

We provide independent, comprehensive reviews of system architectures and code bases, which provide information on the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of your application. If your application has a poor architecture, is not maintainable, is not scalable or is insecure it will cost you in the long run and impact your return on investment. The sooner such pitfalls are identified the sooner they can be resolved, thereby future-proofing your investment.

How we work
We first want to understand your business, your objectives and development requirements.We then apply AGILE methodologies in sprints to iteratively reach your end goal: